The risks of YO-YO DIETING

I bet you have done this few times or a million times in your lifetime. Yo-Yo Dieting is when you start your diet, reach your ideal weight; then you drop everything off and start eating again believing that you will not gain all that weight back. However, this is not the only reason why you do this to your body, but it has a lot to do with not feeling motivated, interested in continuing your new lifestyle, and because you do not see results overnight. 

Yo-Yo Dieting has it risks, yes I know, you might be surprised, but it does come with consequences. You may be saying "But I am skinny now, I can eat whatever I want. If I gain the weight back then I will start my diet all over again" -WRONG- this is what you are not supposed to do, this is the worst mistake you are making to your body. You see results in the outside, but what happened to your inside? This dramatic changes cheats your body, and everything just loses control without even you knowing about it.

Everything you put in your mouth makes your hormones and organs work. If you start a diet a.k.a "New Lifestyle," then you start getting everything in order in your inside; by this I mean hormones. Hormones control every single thing in your body, when food is being digested a hormone is awaken, when you feel stressed a hormone is awaken, it simply creates a chain of reactions. 

So I am guessing you are there dieting, enthusiastic about your new lifestyle and later on you just give up, you do not see results as fast as you thought you would see them. You begin eating bad again, and what happens with you hormones? they become imbalanced. The risks start right here, when you already cheated your body and now nothing is in order just for the simple reason that you stopped doing what you were supposed to do. Here are few risks that come along with yo-yo dieting:

1. Depression: Since you have been doing this for a while, you begin to feel frustrated with yourself and your body, you criticize yourself constantly, you see no results whatsoever, you even yell to yourself "YOU ARE SUCH A FAILURE YOU CAN'T EVEN DO THIS." At this point, your self - esteem hits rock bottom, you drop everything, all your hard work, all that motivation and enthusiasm to the garbage. Your emotional balance loses its control making you feel lethargic, low libido, low energy, with no purpose in life, you give up in your goals, very fatigued and so on.
2. Slow Metabolism: Because you are changing your diet frequently, your body gets confused, so does your metabolism. With a healthy diet you teach your metabolism to be faster, and to work for you all day. When you yo-yo diet, metabolism doesn't know exactly what you want; therefore, it turns to be a reduced metabolism, which means that it slows down. Having a slow metabolism make it harder for you to lose weight, you have to actually teach your metabolism to move faster by eating healthy and natural foods. In case you didn't know this, it is very rare, but slow metabolism can permanently stay that way. Be aware of what you really do to your body.
3. Heart Issues: Due to the fact that you are gaining all that weight back, you are in higher risk to have high cholesterol, high blood pressure and heart disease. All these risks can appear due to being obese or overweight. However, heart diseases are not the only consequences though, type 2 diabetes is a major concern for those struggling with obesity and not following a healthy diet throughout their lifetime. 
4. Obesity: Even if you weren't obese, but you gained weight in the past few years and you want to eliminate it and all of a sudden you give up; there is a chance of you overeating every single day and reaching obesity. By this I mean, you start binge eating, which means that you would eat and eat with no limitations due to frustrations in life, or even frustrations with yourself about not being able to lose those extra pounds. Also, emotional eating has a lot to do with binge eating. Every time you feel low, you would eat sugar to make you feel better, and this is a huge risk for lots of people who don't know the difference between being hungry and emotional eating. Be aware of your feelings, get to know the difference between being hungry and when you want to eat because you feel sad, frustrated or stressed.